Foreign language effects on moral dilemma judgments: An analysis using the CNI model

Białek, Michał; Paruzel‐Czachura, Mariola; Gawronski, Bertram

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103855

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“…Research using the CNI model has provided valuable insights into the effects of cognitive resources (Gawronski et al, 2017), question framing (Gawronski et al, 2017), incidental emotions (Gawronski et al, 2018), testosterone (Brannon et al, 2019), language use (Białek et al, 2019), stress (Li et al, 2019; Zhang et al, 2018), and power (Gawronski & Brannon, 2020) on moral dilemma judgments. Of importance for the current question, findings obtained with the CNI model have also provided deeper insights into the association between psychopathy and moral dilemma judgments.…”

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Using the CNI Model to Investigate Individual Differences in Moral Dilemma Judgments

Körner

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Gawronski

2020

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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Typical moral dilemmas pitting the consequences of a given action against the action’s consistency with moral norms confound several determinants of moral judgments. Dissociating these determinants, the CNI model allows researchers to quantify sensitivity to consequences, sensitivity to norms, and general preference for inaction over action regardless of consequences and norms. However, with the currently available set of dilemmas for research using the CNI model, the model is not suitable for studies with individual-difference designs. To overcome this limitation, the current research investigated the suitability of an extended dilemma battery to make the CNI model amenable for individual-difference research, examining relations of its parameters with psychopathy, empathic concern, need for cognition, self-reported utilitarianism, behavioral activation/inhibition, moral identity, and religiosity. The results support the suitability of the CNI model for individual-difference research with the extended dilemma battery, providing more nuanced insights into the underpinnings of individual differences in moral dilemma judgments.

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Using the CNI Model to Investigate Individual Differences in Moral Dilemma Judgments

Körner

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Gawronski

2020

Pers Soc Psychol Bull

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“…Hayakawa et al (2017) fi nd that "the MFLE was not replicated when we examined responses to the kind of moral dilemmas traditionally used to measure utilitarian responding." 17 Białek, Paruzel-Czachura, & Gawronski (2019) and Muda et al (2018) similarly report that using L2 does not affect moral judgments in a series of moral dilemmas to any signifi cance. If this right, then our case for agnosticism is strengthened.…”

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Some Challenges for Research on Emotion and Moral Judgment: The Moral Foreign-Language Effect as a Case Study

McFarlane

Perez

2020

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In this article, we discuss a number of challenges with the empirical study of emotion and its relation to moral judgment. We examine a case study involving the moral foreign-language effect, according to which people show an increased utilitarian response tendency in moral dilemmas when using their non-native language. One important proposed explanation for this effect is that using one’s non-native language reduces emotional arousal, and that reduced emotion is responsible for this tendency. We offer reasons to think that there is insufficient evidence for accepting this explanation at present. We argue that there are three themes that constrain our current ability to draw firm empirical conclusions: 1) the frequent use of proxies or partial measures for emotions, 2) the lack of a predictive and generalizable theory of emotion and specific emotion-types, and 3) the obscurity of a baseline level of neutrality with respect to participant emotion. These lessons apply not only to research on the moral foreign-language effect, but to empirical research in moral psychology more generally.

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“…Prior to data collection from April 15-20, GPower suggested that 235 participants would confer 80% power to detect a typical effect size of f = 0.204 (Gignac & Szodorai, 2016). To ensure sufficient power after exclusions and stable correlations (Schönbrodt & Perugini, 2013), we recruited 263 English-fluent participants (Białek, Paruzel-Czachura, et al, 2019) with at least some high school education from a single call for participants on CloudResearch (Chandler et al, 2019). We agreed in advance to exclude those who failed an attention check (N = 17), leaving a final sample of 246 participants (165 women, mean age = 45.54, SD = 13.62, age range 19-66, 205 identified as White, 20 Black, 4 Hispanic or Latino, 8 Pacific Islander, 1 American Indian or Native American, and 25 as another ethnicity).…”

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Your Health vs. My Liberty: Philosophical beliefs dominated reflection and identifiable victim effects when predicting public health recommendation compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Białek²

2020

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Philosophers and scientists have emphasized how our responses to global crises are often alarmingly ineffective. For example, people often prioritize a few nearby victims over many victims abroad. We wanted to understand individual differences in responses to public health crises during the COVID19 pandemic. Two experiments investigated how compliance with public health recommendations depended on messaging, cognitive style, and prior philosophical beliefs (Total N = 998). One of the two experiments found that compliance with public health recommendations was slightly improved by messaging about individual victims compared to messaging about statistical victims—i.e., "flatten the curve" graphs. However, both experiments found that beliefs about morality were more potent predictors of compliance than strategic messaging or reflective reasoning. In the second experiment, religiosity and beliefs about science were similarly predictive. This suggests that non-compliance with public health recommendations may not be a matter of ineffective messaging or reasoning, but philosophical differences.

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Foreign language effects on moral dilemma judgments: An analysis using the CNI model

Cited by 81 publications

References 15 publications

Using the CNI Model to Investigate Individual Differences in Moral Dilemma Judgments

Using the CNI Model to Investigate Individual Differences in Moral Dilemma Judgments

Some Challenges for Research on Emotion and Moral Judgment: The Moral Foreign-Language Effect as a Case Study

Your Health vs. My Liberty: Philosophical beliefs dominated reflection and identifiable victim effects when predicting public health recommendation compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic

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